THE TEZPUR UNIVERSITY ACT, 1993 __________________ ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS __________________ SECTIONS 1. Short title and commencement. 2. Definitions. 3. The University. 4. Objects of the University. 5. Powers of the University. 6. Jurisdiction. 7. University open to all classes, castes and creed. 8. Residence of students. 9. The Visitor. 10. Officers of the University. 11. The Chancellor. 12. The Vice-Chancellor. 13. The Pro-Vice-Chancellor. 14. Deans of Schools. 15. The Registrar. 16. The Finance Officer. 17. Other officers. 18. Authorities of the University. 19. The Board of Management. 20. The Planning and Academic Committee. 21. The Academic Council. 22. The Planning Board. 23. The Boards of Schools. 24. The Finance Committee. 25. Other authorities of the University. 26. Power to make Statutes. 27. Statutes how to be made. 28. Power to make Ordinances. 29. Regulations. 30. Annual report. 31. Annual accounts. 32. Conditions of service of employees. 33. Procedure of appeal and arbitration in disciplinary cases against students. 34. Right to appeal. 35. Provident and pension funds. 36. Disputes as to constitution of University authorities and bodies. 37. Constitution of Committees. 38. Filling of casual vacancies. 39. Proceedings of University authorities or bodies not invalidated by vacancies. 40. Protection of action taken in good faith. 41. Mode of proof of University record. 42. Power to remove difficulties. 43. Transitional provisions. 44. Statutes, Ordinances and Regulations to be published in the Official Gazette and to be laid before Parliament. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. THE SECOND SCHEDULE. 1 THE TEZPUR UNIVERSITY ACT, 1993 ACT NO. 45 OF 1993 [1st June, 1993.] An Act to establish and incorporate a teaching and residential University in the State of Assam at Tezpur and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Tezpur University Act, 1993. (2) It shall come into force on such date1 as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint. 2. Definitions.—In this Act, and in all Statutes made hereunder, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) “Academic Council” means the Academic Council of the University; (b) “academic staff” means such categories of staff as are designated as academic staff by the Ordinances; (c) “Board of Management” means the Board of Management of the University; (d) “Board of Studies” means the Board of Studies of the University; (e) “Chancellor”, “Vice-Chancellor” and “Pro-Vice-Chancellor” mean, respectively, the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University; (f) “College” means a College maintained by the University; (g) “Department” means a Department of Studies, and includes Centre of Studies; (h) “distance education system” means the system of imparting education through any means of communication, such as broadcasting, telecasting, correspondence courses, seminars, contact programmes or the combination of any two or more such means; (i) “employee” means any person appointed by the University, and includes teachers and other staff of the University; (j) “Finance Committee” means the Finance Committee of the University; (k) “Hall” means a unit of residence or of corporate life for the students of the University, or of a College or of an Institution, maintained by the University; (l) “Institution” means an academic institution, not being a College, maintained by the University; (m) “Planning and Academic Committee” means the Planning and Academic Committee of the University; (n) “Planning Board” means the Planning Board of the University; (o) “Principal” means the Head of a College or an Institution maintained by the University, and includes, where there is no Principal, the person for the time being duly appointed to act as Principal, and, in the absence of the Principal or the acting Principal, a Vice-Principal duly appointed as such; (p) “recognised institution” means an institution of higher learning recognised by the University; (q) “recognised teachers” means such persons as may be recognised by the University for the purpose of imparting instructions in a College or an Institution maintained by the University; (r) “Regulations” means the Regulations made by any authority of the University under this Act for the time being in force; (s) “School” means a School of Studies of the University; 1. 15th January, 1994, vide notification No. G.S.R 22(E), dated 15th January, 1994, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(i) 2 (t) “Statutes” and “Ordinances” mean, respectively, the Statutes and Ordinances of the University for the time being in force; (u) “teachers of the University” means Professors, Readers, Lecturers and such other persons as may be appointed for imparting instruction or conducting research in the University or in any College or Institution maintained by the University and are designated as teachers by the Ordinances; (v) “University” means the Tezpur University established under this Act. 3. The University.—(1) There shall be established a University by the name of “Tezpur University”. (2) The headquarters of the University shall be at Tezpur and it may also establish campuses at such other places within its jurisdiction as it may deem fit. (3) The first Vice-Chancellor and the first members of the Board of Management, the Planning and Academic Committee or the Academic Council or the Planning Board and all persons who may hereafter become such officers or members, so long as they continue to hold such office or membership, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the name of “Tezpur University”. (4) The University shall have perpetual succession and a common seal and shall sue and be sued by the said name. 4. Objects of the University.—The objects of the University shall be to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing instructional and research facilities in such branches of learning as it may deem fit; to make provisions for integrated courses in humanities, natural and physical sciences, social sciences, agricultural science and forestry and other allied disciplines in the educational programmes of the University; to take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning processes, inter-disciplinary studies and research; to educate and train manpower for the development of the State of Assam; and to pay special attention to the improvement of the social and economic conditions and welfare of the people of that State, their intellectual, academic and cultural development; and the University shall, in organising its activities, have due regard to the objects specified in the First Schedule. 5. Powers of the University.—The University shall have the following powers, namely:— (i) to provide for instruction in such branches of learning as the University may, from time to time, determine and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge; (ii) to grant, subject to such conditions as the University may determine, diplomas or certificates to, and confer degrees or other academic distinctions on the basis of examinations, evaluation or any other method of testing on, persons, and to withdraw any such diplomas, certificates, degrees or other academic distinctions for good and sufficient cause; (iii) to organise and to undertake extra-mural studies, training and extension services; (iv) to confer honorary degrees or other distinctions in the manner prescribed by the Statutes; (v) to provide facilities through the distance education system to such persons as it may determine; (vi) to institute Principalships, Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships and other teaching or academic positions, required by the University and to appoint persons to such Principalships, Professorships, Readerships, Lecturerships or other teaching on academic positions; (vii) to recognise an institution of higher learning for such purposes as the University may determine and to withdraw such recognition; (viii) to recognise persons for imparting instructions in any College or Institution maintained by the University; (ix) to appoint persons working in any other University or organisation as teacher of the University for a specified period; 3 (x) to create administrative, ministerial and other posts and to make appointments thereto; (xi) to co-operate or collaborate or associate with any other University or authority or institution of higher learning in such manner and for such purposes as the University may determine; (xii) to establish such campuses, special centres, specialised laboratories or other units for research and instruction as are, in the opinion of the University, necessary for the furtherance of its objects; (xiii) to institute and award fellowships, scholarships, studentships, medals and prizes; (xiv) to establish and maintain Colleges, Institutions and Halls; (xv) to make provision for research and advisory services and for that purpose to enter into such arrangements with other institutions, industrial or other organisations, as the University may deem necessary; (xvi) to organise and conduct refresher courses, workshops seminars and other programmes for teachers, evaluators and other academic staff; (xvii) to make special arrangements in respect of the residence, discipline and teaching of women students as the University may consider desirable; (xviii) to appoint on contract or otherwise